Also on this date
In 1935,
Persia officially changed its name to Iran.
In 1945,
during World War II, Allied bombers began four days of raids over Germany.
In 1952,
the Moondog Coronation Ball, considered the first rock and roll concert, took place at Cleveland Arena.
In 2006,
the social media website Twitter was established with the sending of the first “tweet” by cofounder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: “just setting up my twttr.”
In 2016,
President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro prodded each other over human rights and the longstanding U.S. economic embargo during an unprecedented joint news conference in Havana.
In 2019,
President Donald Trump declared that the U.S. would recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights, a major shift in American policy.
In 2020,
during a White House briefing, President Donald Trump doubled down on his support for the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for the coronavirus, while Dr. Anthony Fauci said the evidence was “anecdotal.”
In 2022,
in her first day of public hearings, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson pledged to decide cases “without fear or favor” if the Senate confirmed her historic nomination as the first Black woman on the high court.
Ten years ago:
On his second day in the Middle East, President Barack Obama insisted “peace is possible” as he prodded both Israelis and Palestinians to return to longstalled negotiations with few, if any, pre-conditions, softening his earlier demands that Israel stop building settlements in disputed territory.
Five years ago:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for a “major breach of trust;” the apology came after it was revealed that the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, whose clients included the Trump campaign, may have used data improperly obtained from Facebook users to try to sway elections.
One year ago:
Veteran talk show host Maury Povich announced he was calling it quits, saying he would stop making original episodes of “Maury” after being a daytime mainstay for 31 years.